JUST BECAUSE: Rare color photo of Ty Cobb

By Mike Axisa | Baseball Writer

February 3, 2014 7:21 PM ET

Hall of Famer Ty Cobb, baseball's all-time leader with a .366 lifetime average, retired at age 41 in 1928, long before pretty much anyone could take a super-high-quality color photo in a matter of seconds. As such, there are precious few color photographs of Mr. Cobb out there. Plus he was supposedly a bit of a jerk (putting it lightly) and probably didn't allow many pictures.